Distribution Grid
topic on 2 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
7 statements about Distribution Grid, every show
Hamilton: 2023 distribution grid investment topped transmission at $173B vs $137B
“Distribution grid investment was greater than transmission investment, and so distribution investment was about a hundred and seventy-three billion, where, in 23, whereas transmission was one thirty-seven billion”
Downing: Wholesale prices for VPPs do not capture distribution value
“I think when you have virtual power plants bidding into wholesale markets and earning a price that represents the value to the bulk power system, It's an incomplete price, because it's not taking a, it's not taking account of the value to the distribution grid…”
EV adoption will heavily shift grid cost-to-serve to local distribution
“There's two hundred eighty million cars in the country. There's a hundred and twenty million households. We designed a century old grid around those hundred twenty million households, and now as all these cars start going electric, there's just going to be a t…”
Bombay: VPPs will resolve localized grid bottlenecks within 5 to 10 years
“I think VPPs have quite a unique role to play in helping alleviating those very localized pain points. And we're not even there right now. We're just talking system wide capacity is pretty much like the limit as to how much VPPs have been able to contribute in…”
AI is critical for complex distribution grid forecasting as EVs expand
“That is a level and complexity of forecasting that we do not have today in the distribution grid, and AI is going to be a really powerful tool to unlock that.”
Kann: Concentrated EV charging has doubled peak load on local distribution circuits
“There are real examples of neighborhoods with lots of electric vehicles, everyone charging at the same time during peak hours, And effectively doubling the peak load on that circuit.”
Sachs: Utilities base interconnection approvals on the worst-hour annual peak
“If you want to interconnect a battery or a solar panel or whatever to the utility today, they're going to look at the worst hour or when the most demand was on that line of the entire year and tell you if you're allowed to inject or not based on that.”